Useless Housing Stat Silence Breakers For Your Awkward Memorial Day Weekend Picnic Moments

I hope you get to celebrate the long weekend with family and friends and please take a moment to reflect on what the holiday stands for.

It is a little early to start the weekend on a Friday afternoon, but hey, this is Housing Notes and our readers are known for doing whatever they want. Since I want to take a break too, I left you with a slew of reading materials in the links below (pop quiz on Tuesday) and cut it super short today. The following is a silly junk stat presentation by ATTOM but I’m confident you won’t remember all those names of distant relatives at the picnic and this might sharpen your naming skills or give you something to talk about over the awkward silence.

For example, Phoenix may be booming, but there are 86% more home purchases by Carter families than a year ago…

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– And I’ll keep an eye out for the Carters.

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Jonathan Miller, CRP, CRE
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Reads, Listens and Visuals I Enjoyed

• Nobody wants to buy 'Versailles in Manhattan,' a $19.75 million Upper East Side townhouse that has been on and off the market for 15 years [Business Insider]
• Census Bureau Reveals Fastest-Growing Large Cities [Census]
• Home Values Rise at Fastest Pace in 12 Years [Zillow]
• Expanding the credit box: What's wrong and how to solve it [National Mortgage News]
• Thinking of selling your home Do it before 2020 economists say [MarketWatch]
• Airbnb’s Josh Meltzer on REBNY, the hotel industry and housing affordability [The Real Deal NY]
• How an immigrant with $20 to his name redefined the NYC luxury apartment [NY Post]
• Actors Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany Sell in Tribeca and Buy in Brooklyn [Wall Street Journal]
• Miami’s $1 Million-Plus-Home Sales Surged in First Quarter [Mansion Global]
• New startup wants to help you make a cash offer on a house [Curbed]
• This New Interactive Map Settles Boston’s Muddled Neighborhood Boundaries [Boston Magazine]
• Experts Predict Next Recession Will Begin in 2020 [Zillow]
• Nobody can sell this $19M ‘Versailles in Manhattan’ [NY Post]
• The Inventory Divide, and Why it Matters [Sarah Jarvis Team]
• Foreign Investors Shrug Off Miami's Rising Sea Levels [NPR]
• You're better than this – [1000watt]
• Sensory expert Kate McLean says NYC streets smell of garlic and tarmac [6sqft]
• Billionaire backlash [The Real Deal NY]
• Meet the little Williamsburg building that’s home to over 1,000 LLCs [The Real Deal NYC]
• "Halfback" trend revives as more retirees leave Florida for other states in the South [The Real Deal Miami]
• Cities Now Use Taxes to Fight Blight. Is It Working? [Governing]
• Washington's new homeowner law erases little-known racist past [My northwest]

My New Content, Research and Mentions

• Builders race to develop sky-high condo buildings [Western Mass News]
• London’s Long Housing Boom Is Over. Is a Bust Coming? [Bloomberg]
• Housing boom has not alleviated cost crunch – yet [amNY]
• Malibu Real Estate Sizzles After Record Sales [Hollywood Reporter]
• Check out these 5 Manhattan apartments with roof deck access, listed for under $650,000 [Brick Underground]

Real Estate Blockchain Reads

• Smart Contracts In The Wild: Applying Blockchain-Fueled Contracts Across Industries [Above the Law]

Appraisal Related Reads

• Appraisal Simulator, Evaluations, S2155 update, & Recap of Meetings [AppraisersBlogs]
• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will update appraisal dataset and forms [Freddie Mac]
• The Golden State Killer’s house (poll results) [Sacramento Appraisal Blog]
• Changing markets [Ann Arbor Appraisal]
• Rethinking Real Estate Valuations and Alternatives to Traditional Appraisals [NAR]

Extra Curricular Reads

• How to Get Scotch Tape off of a Work of Art [The Atlantic]
• Email Is Dangerous [The Atlantic]
• Traumatic License: An Oral History of Action Park [Mental Floss]
• The view from inside a food truck [Washington Post]
• The Last Days of Time Inc. [New York Times]
• The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code [Bloomberg]
• The Tragic End to a Longtime Black-Car Driver’s Campaign Against Uber [NY Mag]
• The reporter who exposed Theranos tells investors how to spot another Elizabeth Holmes [Fast Company]